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Dad River Poems

These Dad River poems are examples of River poems about Dad. These are the best examples of River Dad poems written by international poets.


In This River We Drown In Light
In this river we drown in light
A doorway blocked from me
Yet open to dry eyes

I can only hear your hands
Clutching that splintered wood as water
Rushes...

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Categories: river, 12th grade, addiction, anxiety,



Premium Member Almost Never Was
“She toddled in the mighty Duck
And almost never was”
Whether by design or luck
Or maybe just because

Summertime in Tennessee
So scorching hot and dry 
 The family...

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© Andy Chunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: river, appreciation, emotions, miracle, remember,

Memories On the River
Many years have passed, many summers and winters gone
Yet, I still remember the murmur of your waters.
My dad sitting on your bank, his fishing line...

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Categories: river, memory,

The Lost River-Driver, Part Ii
...But times did change, the great drives stopped,
the state came and blew up the rock,
some though that Joe would now pass on,
but he still showed...

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Categories: river, death, heaven, history, nature,

The Heights of the Ohio
Ever heard of the beautiful Ohio?
The writer in me wants you to know -
River life has its anecdotes
My granny, a German immigrant,
mastered that river in...

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Categories: river, 11th grade, adventure, beautiful,



Premium Member Torch Lake Iii - Fishing For Time
Our boat is first to slice
The green snake skin of Clam Lake
This Saturday morning in May

Heading east to the mouth of Grass River
Where angry Pike...

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Categories: river, father son, fish, fishing,

Premium Member A Poem
A poem is a little girl 
	Helping Mommy with the dishes
		Or teaching her how to use
			A computer app
A little boy at play
	In his sandbox
		Or the...

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© Mel Gill  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: river, boy, children, father son,

Mother Duck Moira
Mother duck Moira
Had her eggs in the nest
She sat on the incubate
 
Mother duck was stressed
All her eggs had passed their expiry date
She was told...

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Categories: childhood, cry, dad, river,

The River of Time
I see you 
in my dreams
my little boy
so trusting
waiting 
for me
to take 
you away
from dad's
sciopathy
But what
you don't
understand
Is l
was under
the spell
of dysfunction
Your dad 
was selling
a love
so...

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Categories: river, allusion, beautiful, birth,

Ice Boats On the Miles
"Here they come!"
We ran hard, fast
in the boots of our
brothers, too loose, 
laces frayed and complicated, 
up the slope of a hill
that marked the bitter,...

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Categories: boat, nostalgia, river, winter,

My Father Used To Say
MY FATHER USED TO SAY.......

My father used to say...
"Don't come back if you drown!"
He often acted the clown...
My endearing mum used to say..
"They'll come home...

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Categories: river, dad, family, father, giggle,

Ohio
the river
in which I learned to swim
along which I practiced my driving

frozen mass where my dad dared to walk in his youth
waterway where my grand...

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Categories: river,

The Misbegotten
The Misbegotten 

On the middle of the bridge we leaned on its railing 
and looked into at the slimy, green and slow 
running stream. Its...

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Categories: river, angst, depression, grief, natural

Premium Member Lazy Old River
There’s a lazy old river in the back of my mind
Our family would visit from time to time, 
Where the waters ran gently through countless...

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Categories: river, childhood, dad, family, growing

For My Dad
More than two years it be since me old dad had to fly. I miss him you know, he was 
my best friend. I miss...

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Categories: river, fatherdad, world, age, old,


Book: Shattered Sighs